Nautilus gained an improved list view this weekend, as code implementing GtkColumnView was merged in to the latest development builds of the file manager. Switching from GtkTreeView (which remains available in GTK4) to the new version is said to offer a number of advantages and offer ‘full feature parity’ with two (temporary) exceptions (these being worked on in separate branches). So what are the benefits? Well, say hello to rubber banding — at long last you can now select multiple files/folders in list view simply by dragging out with your mouse, just like you can in the icon view: There’s […]
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